Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contrast, Rockefeller spent the week minding state business in New York, still playing his quiet waiting game with skill. He announced that he would seek a new state program to create jobs in ghettos by offering tax incentives to businesses that locate there. But on national politics he had nothing to add to his remark of the previous week: "I don't want to be President." Lest this discourage Rockefeller's fans, Maryland's Governor Spiro Agnew, one of his most irrepressible supporters, declared cryptically: "Rockefeller is just as much of a non-candidate...
...some less awesome sights, such as Katmandu's Hindu temples, whose timbers are decorated with erotic carvings designed to frighten off the virginal goddess of lightning. Obviously they are not frightening off foreigners. Last year 12,500 visited Nepal and, if Mahendra can continue to keep his neighbors quiet, many more are expected to visit his lofty realm this year...
...think the quiet students too, many of them, some hardly understanding their feelings at all, know this division and will come to choose the truer, better freedom. The university's "neutral" position, giving "free speech" to "all," is an entire, awful delusion. I've no desire to make a rational, scholarly demonstration of this. I hope that humans will make some portion of this effort for themselves, take into account the full seriousness of the occupations of their lives, and act not in accordance with either false archaic moral high commands or cynical manipulation, both of which...
Even the '50's rebels were quiet ones. Their "Beat Generation" represented a personal rather than political revolt. Politics became "absurd," and the Beatniks chose an existential answer, expressing discontent with the personal outrages of American life like IBM and increasing automation. The radical cry of the '50's was "impersonalization" perpetrated by the centers of economic power; today's radicals concentrate on the central power's "manipulation...
...Jack Bruce, 24, a quiet Scotsman who plays bass guitar and is the group's chief songwriter, sings with the same tremulous passion that Clapton brings to guitar playing. When he huffs into a harmonica and wails the blues in his slightly burred accent, Chicago's South Side takes on a Glasgow glow...